← Return to Genetic tests available for breast cancer detection

Discussion

Genetic tests available for breast cancer detection

Breast Cancer | Last Active: Nov 20, 2019 | Replies (19)
Comment receiving replies
@syska

I wish I would have done the testing prior to treatments. I was diagnosed with triple negative in ‘15. Had a lumpectomy as it was found early and small, then chemo and radiation. I was 65 but wondered why it turned up so late in life. So I saw the genetic counselor and we decided to look at my relatives and there was a number of my generation that had the secondary cancers of the BRCA cancers. I agreed to be tested and I am BRCA2. So I decided I needed to do more to keep the cancer away. Fallopian tubes and ovaries removed in ‘17, bilateral mastectomy and reconstruction in ‘18. Now having all this behind me, I feel great and very pleased with all my care at Mayo Rochester.

Jump to this post

Replies to "I wish I would have done the testing prior to treatments. I was diagnosed with triple..."
betsyk | @betsyk | Oct 25, 2019

Wow! You have been through a lot! Glad you have your surgeries behind you!

VIEW AND REPLY
Teresa, Volunteer Mentor | @hopeful33250 | Oct 26, 2019

Congratulations on being so proactive in order to prevent more cancer, @syska. I'm glad that the information from your genetic testing helped you. Would you recommend genetic testing to others in the early stages of breast cancer treatment?

VIEW AND REPLY
myredss04 | @myredss04 | Nov 14, 2019

I am 61, I had biopsy/surgery on one breast in 2007 an the other in 2017. Both benign. However my mom had breast cancer in 2000 had lumpectomy, chemo an radiation. 3 mths later my mom’s mom, my grandma had breast cancer an had a mastectomy. One of my grandmother’s sisters an her daughter brother had breast cancer. Today on my 6 mth follow my daughter says we should do the genetic testing. So I had the blood test done. They say it takes 2-3 weeks to get results. I say what my mom went through with chemo an radiation an what our family went through. I do not want to go through what my mom did or have my family go through it. Should I be positive for any, would you or anyone recommend having the prophylactic mastectomy?

VIEW AND REPLY